by JAK | Jan 31, 2014 | big ideas, culture, TED, TEDx, video
Sheryl Sandberg wrote a book called Lean In – here is what has happened since then. I watched this clip last night and just loved hearing the update. This was recorded in Dec 2013 for TEDxWomen. An excellent clip for men (and women) to listen to and learn from....
by JAK | Jan 14, 2014 | culture, industry futures
Over the Christmas break I managed I read Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” and re-read Malcolm Gladwells – “Outliers – The Story of Success”. Two very different books but I was intrigued about the role of characters...
by JAK | Jan 4, 2014 | culture
It is the Christmas holidays in New Zealand and in the Southern Hemisphere we are all in t-shirts and at the beach for the most part. Business in New Zealand closes down for most of January and is pretty sleepy in February as well on account of the summer music...
by JAK | Nov 2, 2013 | big ideas, culture, industry futures, TEDx, video
On Dec 7th ( NZ time) TEDxHomebushRdWomen becomes the first TEDxWomens event in New Zealand. It runs from 1:00 – 6.00 pm at the City Gallery in Wellington. The #TEDxHomebushRdWomen event is timed to coincide with a global TEDxWomen event being held on Dec 5th in...
by JAK | Oct 16, 2013 | big ideas, culture
Today we heard that NZ author Eleanor Catton has just won the Man Booker prize and she is the youngest winner for, at 832 pages, the longest novel. This is the second time a NZ author has won the Man Booker prize and this is a good thing for booksellers everywhere and...
by JAK | Oct 9, 2013 | big ideas, culture, TED, video
One of the big idea talks at this years TED Conference was professor James Flynn on Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents. Prof Flynn taught at Otago University in Dunedin for many years and is a global expert on his topic. In simple terms our kids ( and...
